a peace of conflict

war, peace and conflict transformation

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Show the world we want a phone worth keeping! #phonebloks http://thndr.it/15eLEMU

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Join the thunderclap and show the world there is a need for a phone worth keeping, the more people we gather, the bigger the impact!

“Show the world we want a phone worth keeping! #phonebloks http://thndr.it/12lPDsQ

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"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him" Martin Luther King Jr.

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Just came across this guide. Thought I’d share. 

From intro:

  1. Introduction: Why pick up this guide?

 The guide is rooted in the practical experience of its authors and of the ten social media users we interviewed as part of the project. We are not trying to present social media as the answer to every problem a researcher might experience; rather, we want to give a ‘warts and all’ picture. Social media have downsides as well as upsides, but on balance we hope that you will agree with us that there is real value for researchers.  

 This guide will show you how you can use social media to help your research and your career. Social media have big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have much to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work. This guide will provide you with information to make an informed decision about using social media and enable you to select wisely from the vast range of tools that are available.

Given the buzz in the media, you may feel that social media are aimed at teenagers and mainly used to discuss celebrity culture. But this guide will show you how social media offer researchers an opportunity to improve the way they work. One of the most important things that researchers do is to find, use and disseminate information, and social media offer a range of tools which can facilitate these activities. The guide discusses the use of social media for research and academic purposes, rather than the many other  uses that they are put to across society.  

This guide will show how social media can change the ways in which you undertake  research, and open  up new forms of communication and dissemination. The researchers we interviewed in the development of this guide are using social media to bridge disciplinary boundaries, to engage in knowledge exchange with industry and policy makers, and to provide a channel for the public communication of their research.

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"...violence does even justice unjustly."- Thomas Carlyle in Past and Present 1843 

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"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds" -Dalai Lama

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Salvor Hardin

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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

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Lowell Ewert, Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College talking about the links between #peace and #humanrights

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The Four Agreements

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If war is the violent resolution of conflict, then peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather, the ability to resolve conflict without violence.

http://www.ic.org/pnp/ocac/

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What to do if you experience street harassment as a by-stander. 

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To remember is to work for peace, but it takes more than memory to move beyond war. Today I remember the past, but am also hopeful of a future that can move beyond organized war and actually learn the lessons from the past. That can only happen if we are open to options that do not include militarization. Several options do exist and have shown tremendous success at building peace in conflict zones. It's time to move beyond just remembering. That is my hope. ♥

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if you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

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Something to consider in the wake of an Obama win:  During his first term-- Obama signed an order that gives the President the power to secretly order and oversee the extrajudicial killing of American citizens and still regularly uses drone strikes to kill innocent civilians. He can not be the "hope" of a more peaceful world-- when he is still a BIG part of the problem.  Democracy does not begin and end with voting. Oppose your leaders when they do wrong-- even if you have voted for them in the past. Challenge them. Protest against them. Make your voice heard. Voting is the least of the process.

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"Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds". Mahatma Gandhi

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THE CASUALITIES OF THE WAR IN VIETNAM February 25, 1967, The Nation Institute, Los Angeles